Womanhood & International Relations

171. Daniela Suárez Vargas on CRSV and 'Total Peace' Efforts in Colombia

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How the political climate of countries can hinder or facilitate conflict resolution or peace efforts? When did the concept of "peace" become a political tool for winning or losing a presidential elections in Colombia? Can the new 'Total Peace' plan pave the way for transitional or transformational justice?

How have Conflict-Related Sexual Violence cases within rebel groups such as the FARC been addressed in transitional justice mechanisms? Who are the 'ideal victims' for the State or the special judicial systems? How can reparations for sexual violence victims include a gender perspective?

An interview with Daniela Suárez Vargas is a PhD student in Law at Queen’s University Belfast (UK),  a scholar of the AHRC Northern Bridge Consortium’s doctoral training programme (UK), and a qualified lawyer in Colombia. Her PhD project analyses how legal narratives of the "ideal victim" of sexual violence impact the recognition of victim status for women fighters who experienced such violence within their own armed group.

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    • Recommended links to this episode: 

    • Daniela Suarez QUB Profile
    • Daniela Suarez Twitter
    • The Role and Responsibilities of Non-State Actors in Transitional Justice
    • Are girls under the age of 15, who are taken as wives or partners by members of an armed group participating in a non-international armed conflict, protected from sexual violence perpetrated against them by their partners or by other members of the armed group to which they belong?
    • MÁS ALLÁ DEL SILENCIO Y EL ESTIGMA: reparaciones con perspectiva de género para víctimas de violencia sexual en programas domésticos de reparación (Daniela Suárez was a collaborator for the Spanish translation of this report)
    • Daniela Suárez Vargas and Rachel Killean (2023) “Women’s Experiences of Environmental Harm in Colombia: Learning from Black, Decolonial and Indigenous Communitarian Feminisms” in Gendering Green Criminology.
    • Lawpod PhD Series Episode. “Colombian transitional justice narratives of criminalisation and victimhood in the context of sexual violence within armed groups” 
    • Comisión de la Verdad de Colombia (2022), Mi cuerpo es la verdad (Reporte Final)




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